Dendrocalamus membranaceus Munro

• Habit
• Culms: caespitose
• Culm Diameter: 6 - 10 cm
• Culm Internode Length: 22 - 38 cm
• Wall thickness:
• Height: 10 - 18 meter

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• Identification Features: Culm Color green, covered with white powdery deciduous scurf when young, nodes strongly ringed, upper branches drooping; Culm-sheaths 7-15 cm long with appressed dark-brown hairs, auriculate with 10 mm high auricles; Leaves lanceolate, 20-35 cm long; Inflorescence a compound panicle with distant globular heads; Fruit is broadly ovate Caryopsis with adherent pericarp.
• Flowering Cycle:
• Distribution: India (Kerala, West Bengal), China, Myanmar
• Altitude: Below 1000 meter
• Spacing for Cultivation:7 x 7 meter
• Uses: Construction, Pulp and paper, Edible shoots, Handicrafts, chopsticks, shreds